{"id":28949,"date":"2024-03-14T07:03:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T14:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/?p=28949"},"modified":"2024-03-14T10:48:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T17:48:57","slug":"a-battleship-shaped-food-stand-on-venice-pier-venice-california-circa-1910s-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2024\/03\/14\/a-battleship-shaped-food-stand-on-venice-pier-venice-california-circa-1910s-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A battleship-shaped food stand on Venice Pier, Venice, California, circa 1910s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28950\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2024\/03\/14\/a-battleship-shaped-food-stand-on-venice-pier-venice-california-circa-1910s-2\/a-battleship-shaped-food-stand-on-venice-pier-venice-california-circa-1910s\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/A-battleship-shaped-food-stand-on-Venice-Pier-Venice-California-circa-1910s.jpg?fit=999%2C738&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"999,738\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"A battleship-shaped food stand on Venice Pier, Venice, California, circa 1910s\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/A-battleship-shaped-food-stand-on-Venice-Pier-Venice-California-circa-1910s.jpg?fit=300%2C222&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/A-battleship-shaped-food-stand-on-Venice-Pier-Venice-California-circa-1910s.jpg?fit=640%2C473&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28950\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/A-battleship-shaped-food-stand-on-Venice-Pier-Venice-California-circa-1910s.jpg?resize=640%2C473&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A battleship-shaped food stand on Venice Pier, Venice, California, circa 1910s\" width=\"640\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/A-battleship-shaped-food-stand-on-Venice-Pier-Venice-California-circa-1910s.jpg?w=999&amp;ssl=1 999w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/A-battleship-shaped-food-stand-on-Venice-Pier-Venice-California-circa-1910s.jpg?resize=300%2C222&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/A-battleship-shaped-food-stand-on-Venice-Pier-Venice-California-circa-1910s.jpg?resize=768%2C567&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>I\u2019m not sure why someone would think a battleship would make for an inviting food stand, but someone did as we can see in this circa 1910s photo taken on the Venice Pier. I think the sign says \u201cFRESH FISH\u201d which makes me wonder if there\u2019s someone at the back of the battleship catching fish. The water certainly would have been cleaner back then than it is now. I also love to people-watch in photos like this\u2014especially beach photo were people are wearing so much clothing that anybody would think of wearing these days.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen E. said: &#8220;This is very much the high point of &#8216;Dreadnought mania&#8217;. The popularity of an enormous class of battleship in the general population might seem odd now, but at a time of heightened nationalism and general &#8216;ra ra ra-ism&#8217;, people went mad for them across Europe and thence the US.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not sure why someone would think a battleship would make for an inviting food stand, but someone did as we can see in this circa 1910s photo taken on the Venice Pier. I think the sign says \u201cFRESH FISH\u201d &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2024\/03\/14\/a-battleship-shaped-food-stand-on-venice-pier-venice-california-circa-1910s-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,12,43],"class_list":["post-28949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beaches","tag-restaurants","tag-venice-beach"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XK3w-7wV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28952,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28949\/revisions\/28952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}